Explore Mount Savage, Maryland, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Mount Savage, Maryland. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Maryland or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Mount Savage.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Mount Savage |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Allegany County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.695642 |
| Longitude | -78.879744 |
| Population | 733 |
| Density | 295.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 21545 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Cumberland |
| School District | Allegany County Public Schools |
Mount Savage occupies a rugged corridor where the earth rises into steep, timbered inclines that funnel the wind through the narrow throat of Dutch Hollow. It lies 4.6 miles northwest of LaVale, MD (from LaVale, MD: bearing 307°T), and is situated 6.9 miles west-northwest of Cumberland. Jennings Run slices through the terrain, its waters carving a persistent, rhythmic path past the foundations of homes that cling to the uneven ground. The air here holds a crisp, metallic edge, particularly as the low afternoon sun catches the slate-gray stone and weathered brick that define the structures. Beyond the immediate rise of the hills, the distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains anchors the horizon, serving as a reminder of the vast, folded landscape that stretches across the interior. While the Western Maryland Reservoir sits quietly four miles away, the life of the land remains concentrated in these tight, shaded creases where the shadows lengthen early against the slopes.
Mount Savage bears the weight of a heavy industrial inheritance, once defined by the deep-throated roar of blast furnaces and the production of firebrick that traveled across the country. The remnants of this labor persist in the physical architecture, where sturdy, utilitarian buildings testify to a time when the economy was forged in the heat of kilns and the extraction of coal. Today, the pace of life maintains a measured, deliberate quality, centered around the local Allegany Co. Commissioners Parks & Rec grounds where the quiet bustle of daily routines unfolds. Education and tradition remain the bedrock of the neighborhood, grounding the people who remain in the deep history of their trade. Even now, the silence that settles over the streets at dusk carries the echo of a working past, a stillness that feels both hollowed out and entirely complete.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Savage, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.695642, -78.879744. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Mount Savage includes the ZIP code (21545), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Allegany County (Cumberland), and school district assignment (Allegany County Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |